So earlier in the week, Joe Francis made a big fucking deal of offering Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the hooker at the center of the Elliott Spitzer scandal, a million dollar pay-out to pose for Girls Gone Wild.

He rescinded the offer after GGW apparently found they already had footage of her in their archives.

Now, I think that story’s bullshit. Joe Francis may be one of the biggest assholes on the planet, but he’s a smart little fucker. And you’d better believe that sonofabitch checked the GGW archives for that girl before he offered her shit. This was all a publicity stunt on his part. He made a fool of Ashley, and now she’s out for blood.

The AP is reporting that her lawyer’s come forward saying she was only 17 when the footage was taken.

In an e-mail to one of Francis’ publicists — forwarded by Buchwald [Dupre's lawyer] to the AP — the attorney said he was “informed by Ashley that the video was in fact taken when she was underage (that is 17).”

Buchwald added in the e-mail that Francis was aware of Dupre’s age during the filming.

Francis said he bought Dupre a Greyhound bus ticket back home to North Carolina in 2003. Dupre returned home after she spent a week on the “Girls Gone Wild” bus in Miami and filmed seven full-length tapes, which included nudity, after signing legal papers, the company said.

“It was because she was underage that he sent her home on a Greyhound bus back to North Carolina. It would be outrageous at the very least to play the video of an underage female on the Internet,” Buchwald said in the e-mail.

GGW has postponed the release of their videos of Ashley until this is all resolved.

How many underage girls do you think this dude has filmed naked???

Put him back in jail!

It doesn’t seem to matter if you spell it with an “e” or an “i”: If your name is Kristen, you’re probably naked on the Internet today.

We’ve got the first (tame) photos of Ashley Alexandra Dupre (aka “Kristen”) in the Girls Gone Wild footage — from when she was 18.

The naughty ones are sure to hit the Internet in the next few hours.

I’ll be waiting.

Oh, I love shit like this.

Joe Francis was prepared to offer Ashley Dupre a cool million to appear in his GGW DVDs, but then he discovered that she’d already gotten naked for him — back when she was 18!!!

“It’ll save me a million bucks,” he said. “It’s kind of like finding a winning lottery ticket in the cushions of your couch.”

Francis said at that point, his offer was off the table: “We actually had been dealing with her rep,” he said. “Our (offer) was the real deal. We just never made the connection.”

Yeah, I call bullshit. Joe already knew he had the footage. The $1M offer was just a publicity ploy for said footage, which is now available on his website, which I refuse to link to here.

Oh, Joe, you’ve been out of jail less than a week and you’re already making me nauseous.